When will people realize that the only rankings that matter are the ones the NHL teams have?
It is well known a couple other teams would have taken him in the mid to late 20s.
So the fact he was ranked 43rd means absolutely nothing except to fans who just spend days looking at lists.

I actually question whether other teams actually did want him in the first round.

Calgary didn't play their cards very well on this one. It was no secret that this was who the flames wanted.

When Maata, Tervainen (sp?) and samuellsen (sp?) were still on the board i imagine the same conversation that ottawa and TO had regarding kadri taking place with feaster and other teams. Especially since Calgary wanted to see how far they could trade down and still take him. "Hey, we're thinking of trading down but we want to make sure our guy is still there, is jankowski your guy?" 15-22 "Nope". After that, "Ummmmm...." *looks at sheet of paper and see's the above mentioned players still up for grabs. "Yeah, Jankowski's our guy."

Feaster then only trades down to the last known team who said they weren't interested in him. The other teams are then happy because that's one more team they don't have to worry about taking their player.

From the opposite perspective of trading up:

It was also no secret that the Oilers wanted Sameullsen (sp?). But they weren't sucessfull in trading up to get him as every team in the 24-30 range knew that's who the Oil wanted.

I actually question whether other teams actually did want him in the first round.

Calgary didn't play their cards very well on this one. It was no secret that this was who the flames wanted.

When Maata, Tervainen (sp?) and samuellsen (sp?) were still on the board i imagine the same conversation that ottawa and TO had regarding kadri taking place with feaster and other teams. Especially since Calgary wanted to see how far they could trade down and still take him. "Hey, we're thinking of trading down but we want to make sure our guy is still there, is jankowski your guy?" 15-22 "Nope". After that, "Ummmmm...." *looks at sheet of paper and see's the above mentioned players still up for grabs. "Yeah, Jankowski's our guy."

Feaster then only trades down to the last known team who said they weren't interested in him. The other teams are then happy because that's one more team they don't have to worry about taking their player.

This isn't true the Coyotes tried to trade up with Calgary after they traded down but the Flames passed when the Coyotes said they wanted Janko

I actually question whether other teams actually did want him in the first round.

Calgary didn't play their cards very well on this one. It was no secret that this was who the flames wanted.

When Maata, Tervainen (sp?) and samuellsen (sp?) were still on the board i imagine the same conversation that ottawa and TO had regarding kadri taking place with feaster and other teams. Especially since Calgary wanted to see how far they could trade down and still take him. "Hey, we're thinking of trading down but we want to make sure our guy is still there, is jankowski your guy?" 15-22 "Nope". After that, "Ummmmm...." *looks at sheet of paper and see's the above mentioned players still up for grabs. "Yeah, Jankowski's our guy."

Feaster then only trades down to the last known team who said they weren't interested in him. The other teams are then happy because that's one more team they don't have to worry about taking their player.

You don't usually hear GMs or scouts saying the draft is deep or not until around draft time, but this year both GMs and scouts have said this draft is very deep from last year and to this day. This is a deep draft.